The White Pilgrim; or, Castle of Olival, published, with SSW
's name, as translated from the popular French novel, Le Pelerin Blanc (by René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt
), no doubt stemmed in actuality from...
Author summary
Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
SSW
began publishing before the end of the eighteenth century. Books for children were her first market niche: both short fiction and instructional works. She later moved into translation and into other kinds of fiction...
Reception
Mary Wollstonecraft
US art critic and author Elizabeth Robins Pennell
, at the very beginning of her career, published at Boston her Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (which a modern critic, Gary Kelly
, singles out as the...
Textual Features
Mary Wollstonecraft
MW
structured her book in the popular form of interaction between children and a female pedagogue, here Mrs Mason, a distant relative who takes on the education of two girls out of compassion for the...
Textual Production
Mary Wollstonecraft
Many critics describe this as a travel book: the first one by a Romantic writer to deal with the exotic North. Critic Gary Kelly
, however, says that it purports
Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan.